tested the birds droppins today

[Guest karl adams]

tested my birds droppings today the birds i fly out are fine but in my stock i found these

[ch pied]

hair worm eggs

[Guest karl adams]

yes :-/ :-/

[Guest frank dooman]

hair worm but not too many, iam told every bird has them but not a prob till something else kicks in but owen is your man on this he knows his stuff

[Guest bigda]

yep hair worms get a tablet

[Guest karl adams]

will do them tomorrow with a 1 day treatment in the water

[Guest IB]

No offence, Karl, is that treatment enough? I too had hair worm at this time of year 2 years ago. Was advised to treat [ with Levamisol] in water for 3 days, and to re-treat 3 weeks later.

[Guest frank dooman]

No offence, Karl, is that treatment enough? I too had hair worm at this time of year 2 years ago. Was advised to treat [ with Levamisol] in water for 3 days, and to re-treat 3 weeks later.

 

moxidectine is 24hr treatmeant ian so are some others

[Guest karl adams]

i use moxidectin  for 1 day

[Guest karl adams]

i find it a good treatment and it works for me

[Guest IB]

Thanks for that, Frank & Karl.

[just ask me]

treat again in about 12 days  

[Guest frank dooman]

Thanks for that, Frank & Karl.

 

see you should have been watching at the shows ian ;) ;)  lol

[Guest karl adams]

i got the microscope out today and used testing the birds as an excuse  to stay at home as the miss wanted me to go shopping again ;D ;D ;D

 

when she got back i was testing the droppings she said   its took  you 5 hours to test the birds

i said yes but if i had a better microscope i could do them in a hour   ;)

my next move is to find a site that dose the good ens and the show her lol ;)

[just ask me]

i got the microscope out today and used testing the birds as an excuse  to stay at home as the miss wanted me to go shopping again ;D ;D ;D

 

when she got back i was testing the droppings she said   its took  you 5 hours to test the birds

i said yes but if i had a better microscope i could do them in a hour   ;)

my next move is to find a site that dose the good ens and the show her lol ;)

 

i bet that will cost a good  few shopping trips though  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Guest karl adams]

its worth a try ;)

[Guest karl adams]

treat again in about 12 days  

 

i may have young in the nest then tho i should of  tested them earlya  really   :-/

[just ask me]

 

i may have young in the nest then tho i should of  tested them earlya  really   :-/

 

its hard to tell from the photos but it don't look to serious personally i don't like giving anything to the birds while there feeding young ones some might say it has no effect and maybe so but i think the natural antibodies that pumped into the young ones from its parents is of the up most importance and u may never know how this will be affected

 

jmo

[Guest karl adams]

i dont think they have them bad as i only found 6 eggs out of 20 birds and i did 2 tests so i will just treat them latter today

[Guest Owen]

Hi Carl

treat your birds for hair worm. You must not allow them to have hair worm because they can do serious damage to the gut. Clean your feeders and drinkers with a good distinfectant but do not leave distinfectant residue on them.

Nice to see that you have worked out how to focus the microscope.

You will need to test them again in about a week to ten days because hair worm can be very hard to shift. I would use Moxidectine at this time of the year because some of your birds could have a flight or two to go.

I am going away to Cornwall today for a couple of days. I'll talk to you when I get back.

Happy Xmas

Owen

[gulkie]

6 eggs are 6 to many.

[Guest IB]

 

i may have young in the nest then tho i should of  tested them earlya  really   :-/

 

Going back to my own experience, was late testing too, and advice I was given was that worm life cycle at this time of year is a lot longer - many weeks, so leave treatment until after breeding. I didn't take that advice, because I recognised suspect droppings from Wim Peters description and reckoned these [new] birds at least needed treatment right away. Vet agreed with my decision, but he told me to redo them 3 weeks after the initial treatment.

 

Didn't do that as birds would be feeding youngsters and I knew that whatever I gave them would end up in crop milk. Think a dewormer is last thing a youngster in the nest needs. So after initial treatment, I used herbal stuff, and droppings test at end of that year was clear for worms.

[Guest karl adams]

birds treated now done the lot cleaned them all out and burnt every think in the lofts will burn out for the next 3days

[franny41]

Is ivermectin any good for hair worm???

[franny41]

Is ivermectin any good for hair worm???

 

I thought i would have got an answer before now boys or does no one know the answer???????????????